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Nottingham Post
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Joseph Locker

Excavator starts tearing down walls of Nottingham's Broadmarsh Centre

New footage shows an excavator tearing down the walls of Nottingham's Broadmarsh Centre.

Currently the western side of the shopping centre building, from Maid Marian Way, is being levelled as part of plans to redevelop the overall Greater Broad Marsh site with a new and improved vision.

Demolition of the eastern side, from Middle Hill, remains in limbo, however.

Nottingham City Council submitted a bid to the Government's recently re-branded Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Committees earlier this year and a decision has yet to be made on whether or not it will receive the cash.

It will be given up to £20m if the bid is successful.

A decision is expected by the end of the year, but in the meantime work to bring down the western side of the site continues.

On Thursday, October 14 an excavator was seen levelling sections of the twisted concrete and steel structure and moving rubble on an area which once housed the pedestrian tunnel from Collin Street to Lister Gate.

This tunnel has since been relocated further towards Middle Hill to allow work on the eastern region to take place.

The entire site, which is roughly the size of Wembley Stadium, is now owned by Nottingham City Council after shopping centre giant intu, which ran the shopping centre, collapsed into administration last year.

Covid was the final nail in the coffin for the struggling company amid mounting debts.

World-renowned urban designer Thomas Heatherwick was recently appointed to help devise a new vision for the Greater Broad Marsh area alongside property development firm Stories.

Mr Heatherwick previously told Nottinghamshire Live he may even utilise some of the old concrete structure in his plans, describing some of the concrete support beams as akin to "dinosaur bones" which could and should be preserved.

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